Hyrcaniann.adj.
/həːˈkeɪnɪən/ A. n.
A native or inhabitant of Hyrcania, an ancient region on the Caspian Sea.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of ancient cities or states > [noun]
MedeeOE
PartheOE
PuniceOE
NineviteOE
Trojanc1330
sodomitea1382
Phoeniciana1387
Macedonianc1400
Parthianc1400
Macedonc1440
Phrygian?1473
Mycenaeanc1487
Tyrian1513
Sidonian?1520
Galatian1526
Canaanite1530
Cananaean1534
Milesian1550
Sogdian1553
Syrophœnician1560
Molossian1563
Hyrcanian1567
Palmyrene1567
Pergamenian1579
Smyrnian1579
Mysian1581
Carthaginian1592
Punican1595
Lycian1598
Smyrnaean1598
Phocaean1600
Gallo-greeks1601
Iberian1601
Minaean1601
Susian1601
Cappadocian1607
Carian1607
Paphlagonian1607
Hamathite1611
Pergamene1612
Byzantiana1620
Gallo-graecians1619
Chalcidian1654
Philadelphiana1680
Xanthian1685
Palmyrenian1697
Isaurian1776
Dardan1813
Byzantine1836
Bœotian1839
Ilian1847
Susianian1874
Libyo-Phœnician1876
Khaldian1882
Mitannian1907
Iconian1911
Petraean1923
Lycaonian1926
1567 W. Barker tr. Xenophon Discipline Cyrus viii. sig. C8 Of the Hyrcanians, the Colonells son.
1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 419/2 Josephus..mentions a king of the Hyrcanians in the time of Vespasian.
1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 603/1 The Hyrcanians were still independent c. 155.
1973 R. L. Fox Alexander the Great xi. 160 Medes, Armenians, Hyrcanians, North Africans and Persians themselves..fled through the stockade.
B. adj.
Of or pertaining to this region. Hyrcania was the wild region par excellence to the ancients.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [adjective]
westeeOE
wildc893
wastyc1230
wastec1290
untilled1297
void1398
wilsomea1400
desolate1413
wastablea1450
unlaboured1474
untilthed1495
spare1508
unmanured1541
unculted1548
uncultured1555
Hyrcan1567
untoiled1578
manureless1595
griggy1597
Wealdish1598
Hyrcanian1600
unwrought1600
wealy1601
uncultived1605
incult1624
unmanaged1634
incultivateda1657
uncultivate1659
uncultivated1684
unreclaimed1753
wildered1810
irreclaimed1814
natural1827
feral1882
the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Near East, Middle East, and Asia Minor > [adjective] > Asia Minor > specific lands
Pontic?1556
Aeolian1567
Hyrcan1567
Median1577
Albanian1578
Parthian1581
Lycaonian1582
Lydian1584
Anatolian1590
Cilician1597
Lycian1598
Hyrcanian1600
Cappadocian1607
Mysian1613
Chaldaic1662
Pergamenian1680
Sogdian1700
Chaldean1732
Carian1818
Pontine1832
Anatolic1853
Medic1869
Sumerian1874
Mitannian1897
Mitannite1911
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. vii. 41 The Hircanion deserts. View more context for this quotation
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 453 The rugged Pirhus like Th'ircanian beast. View more context for this quotation
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 158 Likewise the Cimbrian, Hircanian, and Magnesian Dogs.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iii. 316 The Hyrcanian cliffs Of Caucasus. View more context for this quotation
1777 J. Richardson Dict. Persian, Arabic & Eng. I. 1172/2 The red Hyrcanian or Tabristan willow.
1820 P. B. Shelley Ode to Liberty viii, in Prometheus Unbound 213 From what Hyrcanian glen or frozen hill,..Didst thou lament the ruin of thy reign?
1824 T. Carlyle Let. 4 Dec. (1909) II. 44 Frightful as the Hyrcanian Tiger.
1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 603/1 In [ a.d.] 59 the Hyrcanian ambassadors were able to return home.
1973 R. L. Fox Alexander the Great ix. 141 In the Caicus valley..the colonists from distant Hyrcania..lived on in the land called the Hyrcanian Plain, where Cyrus had settled them two centuries earlier.
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